Well too late now... went ahead and got myself a 256 Fuji for $66 Us... free whipping.

I gather that If I want to use the panoramic shot I can use the 16Xd card that comes with the camera and save myslef some bucks.

I felt the same way when I bought my Olympus. I keep the 16 MB card for the off chance I want to make a panorama picture and use the aftermarket for everything else. There have been threads on the Oly board on how to format a card for panorama but its not worth the time and effort to me.

The annoying thing is, the Oly card does not produce panorama mode shots by magic. They are generic Oly branded cards, but the camera looks for the hidden brand name on the cards format, before it lets you into the camera's pano mode.

Why bother with it when I was able to get a 256Megs XD card for $64???

Is that an awesome deal or what??

Can I ask where you bought the card from since even with the exchange rate thats cheaper by a decent margin compared to what I can find fugi's cards for up around me. Thanks for the information in advance!

Some guy was selling two of those because from what he told me he bought a camera and two cards and for some reason returned the camera and couldn't return the cards because he had lost the receipts, so he sold at a loss on Ebay..